Phil Adamo received his B.A. in Medieval and Renaissance Studies from the University at Albany (SUNY) and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Medieval History (2000) from The Ohio State University. As a graduate student, he won several teaching awards, including the Graduate Associate Teaching Award, the Provost’s Teaching Fellowship, and the Clio Award for Outstanding Teaching in History. His research concerns the thirteenth-century, French monastic order known as the Caulites. His dissertation on the formation of the Caulite Order won the Ohio Academy of History Dissertation Award in 2001. He has published articles and/or reviews in Revue Mabillon; The Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences; The Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writings; and the customizable class reader Exploring the European Past.

Phil is currently serving as faculty advisor to the department's history club, the Augsburg History Society, which sponsors a variety of activities, from field trips to historic sites to the monthly film series "History Goes to the Movies." The latter no doubt grew out of Phil's love for classic films in black and white—never colorized. According to rumor, what he really wants to do is direct.

Courses: 

HIS101 - Beginning of Western Culture

HIS 360 - Ancient Near East

HIS 361 - Hellenistic Greece and Rome

HIS 369 - Early and High Middle Ages

HIS 370 - Late Middle Ages to 1648

HIS 440 - Topics
"Crusades," "Monasticism," "Medieval Church"